UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 719 
Contribution from the Bureau of Markets 
CHARLES J. BRAND, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
August 29, 1918 
WOMEN'S RURAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR 
ACTIVITIES. 
By Anne M. Evans, 
Investigator in Women's Rural Organizations. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
"Women's rural organizations are numerous 
and varied - 
Organized effort of women develops home 
life 
Page. 
Country women cooperate for broader agri- 
cultural opportunities 8 
Farm women's organizations promote com- 
munity life in the country 10 
WOMEN'S RURAL 1 ORGANIZATIONS ARE NUMEROUS AND VARIED. 
The rural telephone, better roads, the automobile, and rural tree 
delivery have greatly facilitated communication in rural districts. 
Women whose homes are on the farms are taking advantage of the 
improvement in means of communication and are endeavoring in an 
organized way to further the development of every phase of activity 
which will mean better home life on the farm, broader and bigger 
agricultural opportunities for the future, and an ideal rural com- 
munity life. 
Organizations have been small and simple, but they are permeating 
country life. For example, in one Southern State having three- 
fourths of its land area in farms there are over 500 women's rural 
organizations. The organizations represented are: The Homemakers' 
Clubs, the Parent-Teacher and School Improvement Associations, 
the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Cooperative Clubs, the Eastern 
Star, the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Woman's 
Christian Temperance Union. In addition there are a number of 
ladies' aid and missionary societies, and neighborhood and family 
clubs not belonging to any of the county or State organizations. 
1 All organizations located in places of less than 2,500 inhabitants are considered as "rural." This is 
in accordance with the definition of rural territory adopted for the Thirteenth (1910) Census. 
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